The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

ihriving business by stationing himsaii
at the ferries and supplying funeral
parties with TASKS Of whisky.
The bicycle Is not as favorably
looked upon MS the tricycle. by the Paris
authorities, and consequently its use is
restricted to certain tboroughfares'
while its lthree-wheeled brethren enjoy
the freedom of all the avenues and
boulevards in the city.
On tho Avenue. e.-He-"Wasn't the
er-er-lawst night chawming-the con-
versation was so er-er chawming and the
or. er chawming---" She-"Chawm-
ingp Chawming! I've thought 1t all
over, t-cher-know, and 1t really was
just awfully, jolly chawming. ."-Pncs.
"A small girl industriously studying
her lesson in American history came
across an allusion to the Shoshone
tribe of Indians, and after a silent
struggle with the word looked up weari-
ly and asked: "Papa, who were the
Shoehorn Indians, anywayp"- Boston
Bulletin.
DR. vulpian has reported to the
Paris Academy of Sciences that during
the epidemic of yellow fever lately pre-
vailing in Rio Janeiro, of 1924 persons
inoculatcd against the fever. only six
died, or less than one per thousand,
while the proportion of deaths among
those not treated was one per cent
Boston, Budget. -t
AT n recent meeting Of colonial
representatives in London, called the
Colonial Conference, the fact was
brought out that the submarine tele-
graph systems of the world embrace
1O7, 900 miles of cable, costing some
thing like $1s5,000,000. and that all
except 1000 miles is under British con-
troll. Opinion.
The statement is made in New
York City paper that one railroad car
ried $4,000 country boarders to farm
houses in three counties in the State.
where they stayed on an average eight
weeks each, and left in the hands OF
farmers 81, 100000. If the statement is
true summer boarders appear to be the
best-paying crop a farmer can raise.
The Piegan Indians. of Montana,
have made over $4,000 his spring skin
ming the carcasses of caIuie which per-
ished in the snow. The Indians re-
ceivcd seventy-fivc cents for every hide
they brought in, and they exhibited
such industry that it became necessary
to watch the herds to prevent them
from skinning every animal in the ter
ritory, dead or alive.-M Y Sun.
-Pompey, who for thirteen years has
been an honored resident of the Phil
adelphia Zoo, died recently in the
presence of q crowd collected to see
the animals fed. For four years POM
pey, who was fine specimen of the
African lion, has been stone blind, but
otherwise in good health. He was
twenty-nine years old, four years above
the average life of the Gagged lion.-N.
Y. Sun.
"A swarm of bees looking for a
place to light settled upon span of
mules as they were drawing a plow
near Montgomery. Ala. The mules
kicked and plunged and this excited the
bees, who began using their stings so
savagely that soon the mules dropped
dead The driver saved his life by
running away, after a vain effort to
drive the bees from the mules. .--Phila-
delphia Press.
"A young man of Pittsburgh going
East in a sleeping car, got up. walked
out of the door, and didn't awake until
he began turning somersaults along the
track. A track walker found him
standing under tree in the rain, gave
him some old clothes, put him on q
hand car and took him to the nearest
station, where his numerous cuts were
dressed He was not seriously hurt,
although the train was running AT the
rate of thirty-fve miles an hour.
-Agent-"Don't you wish to SUBJ
scribe to this bookp" South Carolinian
-"Reckon not" "lt tells all about
earthquakes. Here is picture of
Charleston just after the earthquake.
II don't think chat book will do me any
good. What l want is a picture show
ing how the landscape looks just before
the earthquake. l might learn to get
out of the way.-Ieras Sittings.
One of the new rules of Western
railroad is that clergymen making
requisition for half fare tickets are
obliged to make affidavit that they are
regularly ordained and are engaged in
no other occupation. A certificate was
recently received from preacher at
Salina, Neb., who added after the
words, 81 am engaged in no other busi-
ness or occupation" the phrase, "But
in preaching the unsuchible richs of
gods Word. IN y Sun.
"A curious ear of corn was brou eht
to the Sun Office yesterday. 1t was
grown in Utica by Edward Jones, and
is now owned by Daniel L. Jones, n
McKibbin street, Brooklyn. The am
bilious corn stalk attempted to grow a
half bushel of corn on one stem, and
would have succeeded if each ear had
reached its full size. 1t started thirteen
ears on one stem, and grew them until
the middle one is about eight inches
long. and the dozen surrounding ears
are each about half as big. 1t is reg
ular thirteen combine, and two of its
members have broken loose. il, n
"A tive-year old boy in the city re-
Gently commenced attending Sunday
i